There are hundreds of reasons why a guitar may be discontinued. Lower demand is just one of the many possibilities; nobody here can possibly know the true answer as to why any particular model is no longer available. Any 'answers' will be blind guessing.

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ESP are going through a massive shift to push the ESP Standard brand back to being a (mostly) Japanese exclusive. Thus the available Standard export models have been severely cut back. There will be no more ESP versions of Signature models either. They'll either be LTDs or Custom shop.

In the long run they're going to introduce a brand called E-II which will basically replace what was the ESP Standard - from what I understand they're going to be largely the same guitars, just with the new logo/branding.

They're really pissing me off at the minute. I was going to get a new LTD bass for my birthday this year but was put off by the fact that the new basses were basically lower quality at far higher prices than about 5 or 6 years ago. I love ESP guitars; hate what they're doing to the company

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